Work careers of Chinese Republic Peers women

Abstract

From perspective of life course, We focused on Chinese Republic Peers women's work careers, exploiting 16 interviews on women born in Beijing between 1945 and 1959 and discussed factors which impact on formations of their work careers. Job shifts across different workplaces were found from most of interviewees' experience. On other hand, of career movement was also conceived to be another dimension in women's occupational lives. Till first resignation, as for interviewees whose work careers are put into wave mode or mode, downward mobility mostly is related to shifts among units while upward mobility is mostly realized within same unit. These typical phenomena can be considered as a consequence of changes in Chinese society and national policies. But at same time, interviewees' narratives also show that these women's work careers are more significantly linked to their life events in terms of family life comparing with their husbands. Index Terms - Republic Peers women, work career, life course, family life, interview I. Introduction Over 6 decades have elapsed since People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded in 1949. Theconcomitant with foundation of PRC---Republic Peers 1 , alongside with newly founded PRC, witnessed many historical transitions like Great Leap Forward, natural disasters, Cultural Revolutions, Reform and Opening up and market economy development and so forth in wake of PRC foundation. This was thereby called the Generation brought up under Red Flag, who used to be viewed as one to embrace smooth growth and bright future in socialistic big family. However, they encountered such a couple of enormous historical vicissitudes that people begin to be aware of peculiar adversities to this and inseparable relation between individual life experience and whole society's vicissitudes. The the send-down during Cultural Revolution and laid-off generation gradually become synonyms of this (1). The inseparable relation between individual life experience and society's historical vicissitudes is also explicitly reflected in work career of Republic Peers Women. The founding process of PRC and legislations issued afterwards like Chinese People's Political 1